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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 451234" data-attributes="member: 710">When you complain about stereotypic races, you forget something:Startrek is - in it`s heart - about exploring mankind, human behaviour, human possibilities, human development. It is not really about alien creatures and civilizations. They are used to present an alternative human, or an aspect of humans.Yes, sometimes they tell science fictions stories that are not purely based on this concept, but usually, the stories are exactly used for it.But anyway, the stereotypic races aren`t as stereotypic as some of you suggest.Martok, Worf, Duras, Gowron were very distinct Klingon Characters. Everyone of them was a fighter, but they also had different attitudes.Spock and Tuvok are quite different. Both of them were logical, but Spock was a Scientist, Tuvok was a Security Chief! There was a Vulcan character that followed a Isolitionist Group that plotted to use a powerful psionic artifact to gain control about vulcan, there was a Vulcan Maguis Figther (DS9). Quark, Rom, Nog, Quark´s Mother, his short-time girlfriend (that disguised herself as man), Brunt, the Great Nagus Zek, they all had their own personalities. Most races started stereotypic. But hey, if you don`t know a French or Englisch person, you do only know the stereotype.For must klingons, humans will obviosuly also be very stereotype - weak, always trying to talk things out instead of using action - Though there are plenty "exceptions" of this stereotype...Mustrum Ridcully</blockquote>

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